Anna
Anna stands at #107 nationally in 2025, with the crowd thinning around it. Its high-water mark came in 1918, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
What Anna carries
Anna · Hebrew
“grace”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Anna’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Anna, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Anna since 1880
Anna peaked in 1918 at #10; #107 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Anna is most common
Anna is most common in Alaska: 0.48% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. District of Columbia (0.45%) and New Hampshire (0.37%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Anna
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Mary
#125 in 2025 · Hebrew
Eva
#134 in 2025 · Hebrew
Miriam
#246 in 2025 · Hebrew
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Aaron
#80 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ruth
#173 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josephine
#53 in 2025 · Hebrew
Abel
#231 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with A · Hebrew names · all names
About Anna
How common is Anna today?
Anna stands at #107 nationally in 2025, with the crowd thinning around it. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Anna have a meaning on record?
The gloss on record reads “grace”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Anna?
The recipe puts Mary first, then Miriam, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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